Injury Recovery

Let’s get you strong and back to your life and sport

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Regain strength confidence in what your body can do with a program designed to help you move without pain and get back to the activities you love.

Healing the injury is only part of recovery

An injury can change far more than the area that hurts. Pain, weakness and limited movement often cause you to shift how you stand, walk, lift or exercise, relying on other parts of your body to compensate for what the injured area cannot yet do.

Even after the injury has healed or you have finished physical therapy, those adaptations can remain, creating muscular imbalances that affect how well you move and may lead to continued pain, discomfort or decreased function.

Addressing those changes early helps you restore better movement, rebuild strength and prevent temporary compensations from becoming the way your body learns to move long term.

  • "Clarissa is the best! I have been seeing her for over a year after coming in with a ton of pain from two slipped spinal discs with everything so inflamed basic movement had become difficult. I credit Clarissa and pilates for keeping me off the operating table and slowly but surely getting back to the things I love. She is knowledgeable and intuitive with the ability to connect and communicate with different personalities, abilities and is a joy to spend time with."

    NICOLE O.

  • "I took Pilates with Clarissa after a hip replacement and a year-long hiatus. You need knowledge, awareness and attention to subtle details to get the full benefit, and Clarissa was amazingly helpful on all these fronts. I could absorb her instructions and be confident I was doing things right. I came away feeling a hundred times better. Her guidance was spot-on, tailored to me, empathetic and encouraging."

    JOSH R.

  • "Every session with Clarissa is a master class. Having had a variety of spinal (and now hip) issues for my entire adult life, I have tried every modality out there. Nothing could get me out of pain when playing golf. I was recommended to Clarissa and I am now pain free on the course and in the swimming pool. I feel stronger, more flexible and more intentional. It is rare to find someone who is so passionate, talented and dedicated to the well-being of others."

    SCOTT G.


  • "Clarissa has truly transformed both my body and the way I move through life. Her work goes far beyond Pilates. She is incredibly meticulous and has a depth of knowledge about form, alignment, hypermobility, and functional movement that I have never encountered in another instructor. She identifies the patterns that are causing pain or instability and helps rebuild your movement from the ground up. Because of her, I am stronger, more stable, more aware of my body, and able to move with greater confidence and ease. After eight years, I can honestly say I have never met anyone like her. Working with her has been genuinely life-changing."

    SAMMY R

  • "Clarissa is an incredible pilates teacher and an intuitive and kind guide. I have hypermobility which can be a vulnerability for injury and Clarissa helps me safely increase my strength and flexibility. I'm so grateful for our work together and would recommend her to anyone."

    SHANA L.

  • "I have been working out with Clarissa for over a year and my body has been transformed. I have 3 slipped disk and with Clarissa attention to detail and determination to make sure I have proper form my back has not flared up. I can't thank her enough to ensuring that I'm doing the correct moves. She also has high energy that makes working out for an hour seem like 10 minutes. She is the best!!!"

    MICHELLE W.

  • "Amazing instruction. The attention to detail and dedication is seen on first session. Looking forward to a healthier body thanks to Clarissa!"

    LEO M.

Bridge the gap between recovery and everything you want to be able to do

  • Using Pilates, neuromuscular retraining and progressive strength work, we retrain movement patterns that may have changed because of pain, weakness, immobilization or compensation. We look at the injury, how the rest of your body has adapted and what still feels limited so we can improve alignment, mobility, stability and coordination to help your body distribute effort more effectively.

  • Strengthen the injured area while continuing to train and condition the rest of your body. We adjust resistance, movement complexity and exercise selection based on how your body responds so you can keep progressing without repeatedly aggravating the injury or creating new compensations elsewhere.

  • We progressively reconnect recovery to real movement so the things that once felt uncertain, difficult or out of reach begin to feel possible again. As strength, control and tolerance improve, we prepare your body for increasingly demanding movements and help you understand how to use what you have gained outside the studio.

  • As your body becomes ready for more, your training evolves beyond basic recovery into the strength, conditioning and movement demands of your life and sport. Whether that means returning to running, skiing, tennis, hiking, strength training or simply feeling fit again, we continue building from where your body is now toward everything you want to be able to do.

Get back to living with more freedom in your body.

Recovery should give you more than a healed injury. It should help you move with less pain, feel stronger in your body and trust yourself to participate more fully in the things that matter to you.

Whether your goal is returning to sport, traveling comfortably, keeping up with your family, exercising again or simply moving through everyday life with more ease, I’m here to help you move without pain and build the strength for more freedom, confidence and capability.

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